172 Quotes by Janet Morris

When the balance is restored, people get hurt.

Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.

He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.

Be careful what you pray for.

Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.

Learn when to fear, and how to fear, and how much to fear, before you squander all you have left.

I won’t go back and live in the sea again.

Only from chaos does order come. The angry Fates bring death where they will, when war is king, says Enlil, storm god of the armies, and the tip of his crown rends the clouds above their heads. “Wheresoever I rule, death comes shambling after. So it has always been, is, and will be.”

And as for death – we get what we expect.